Coat ofArms

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Since I put a BLOG entry about my Godson Anthony Giattini who just moved to Fort Lauderdale Florida with his Mom my good friend Pascale(Papousse) Giattini with Matt Ozelie and Lauren. I thought I would also include my God Daughter Katie, my sister Line's oldest daughter.

Katie Forest

Born 16 Dec 1980, 08:49hrs

Length: 20.25”

Weight: 9 lbs

Katie is all grown up now and has a boy named "Dylan", that lives with her in the Miramichi, New Brunswick. Katie works for Bell Aliant Telephone company in the Miramichi, New Brunswick

You might enjoy this from Col D. G. Swinford, USMC, Retired and history buff.

You would really have to dig deep to get this kind of ringside seat to history:

1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese(China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians(Finland 1940); highest ranking American killed was Lt Gen Lesley McNair,killed by the US Army Air Corps.

2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age.His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.

3. At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'), the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's private train was named 'Amerika.'All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than in the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%.

5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Fighter Ace, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.

6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo.This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.

7. When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was piss in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City, but they decided it wasn't worth the effort.

9. A German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

10. Among the first 'Germans' captured at Normandy were several Koreans.They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.

11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island. It could have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island.

I found a bunch of certificates at my apartment from the Air Cadets, my time in the Canadian Forces and at Intercon Security. I still have quite a few more, but they are still in Frames, maybe later. Here's a small look, I wanted to scan them so I would have a digital copy on file.

Above 2 is a Folder to hold Certificates from C.F.S.I.S.

Cadet Services

Cadet Electronic Course, CFB Borden, Ontario

Heart Foundation Certificate

Tae Kwon Do

Canadian Forces Oath of Allegiance

Canadian Forces(CF) Basic Recruit Course - Top Honors

Field Engineer 041 TQ-3 Course CFB Chilliwack, BC

CF Basic Para Course

Combat Engineer 041 TQ-5

Military Police TQ-5

My Military Police TQ-5 (Franco) course in 1987 photo I'm in the second row third guy from left

Photo of KGB(Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) interview room of an inquest in Leningrad, USSR given to the students of LSI SCAN course if passing by Avinoam Sapir a former Israeli Mossad who came up with the course.

French article in the BC french paper "Le Soleil" about being a Private Investigator

Not a good photo of me preventing a trespasser from gaining entry to one of Intercon Security Client's property, after not understanding the word NO ENTRY I grabbed him by the throat, he then understood I was serious. It had to appear in the Chinese paper, not a big deal

Artwork that I designed in Photoshop for the Private Investigators Association of British Columbia(PIABC) "Introduction to Private Investigations Series 1 Manual(2nd edition)"

Autographed photo of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy leaving the White House on board Marine One in Washington, DC